Statewide, the amount of water pumped from underground and sprayed onto crops averages out to more than 2 billion gallons per day.

Friday was the first time the city had seen a dust storm since May 10, 1934, which was during the first wave of the Dust Bowl. Friday's storm was carrying dust picked up from farms in central ...

It started as a way to compensate farmers if a natural disaster struck and ruined their crop yields, which farmers still need today.

Koehn’s farm is an example of southwest Kansas farmers looking to the future and trying new crops to save water and prepare for western Kansas to become more parched. What can we do?

As Congress works to reauthorize a new Farm Bill, we must remember the lessons of the Dust Bowl and insist on robust funding for USDA conservation programs.

The Dust Bowl only compounded the hardships many were facing due to the Great Depression, and with crops failing and livestock dying, farmers were facing financial ruin.

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era.

The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late 1930s after an economic collapse and demographic shifts made farming uneconomical in the central U.S.

Imagine your novel about farmers fleeing the high plains during the Dust Bowl is about to be published. But another book — one partially based on your notes — comes out first. It’s John ...

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.

Nope. Soil and Water Conservation Districts, as they were originally called, were created during the New Deal era of the 1930s, when it was determined the Dust Bowl was not just a result of drought ...